“Close friendships are one of life’s miracles - that a few people get to know you deeply, all your messy or shadowy stuff along with the beauty and sweetness, and they still love you. Not only still love you, but love you more and more deeply. I would do anything for my closest friends, and they would do almost anything for me, and that is about as spiritual a truth as you can get.”
- Anne Lamott
“The only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
- Hanya Yanagihara
“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.”
- Gloria Naylor
“If you have good friends, you have soulmates. People who get you when you don’t even say a word, people who crack your code when you’re talking in circles, people who will speak on your behalf when you’re running out of words and people who will always feel you even when you’re miles apart.”
- Rania Naim
“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.”
